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Paul Colby
Melbourne, Australia
With more than 20 years experience in software engineering and technical leadership, I've worked successfully at all levels of software delivery, from bare metal software engineering, to architecting large-scale high-throughput low-latency cloud-based systems; building and leading high-performance teams, to complete management of a SaaS startup's IT.
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Backup365 Full-time
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 10 months)
Chief Technology Officer
Responsible for all aspects of technology, from solution architecture and design, to product delivery, operations and support, partner and vendor management, budgeting, COGS management, etc.
* Successfully drove technology re-architecture to support rapid delivery and maintainance, with 10x data growth
* Delivered major new projects, including new SharePoint/OneDrive backup solution, a dedicated customer portal, and integration with a second Australian distributor
* Negotiated significant COGS reduction, under NDA, with industry-leading cloud services provider
* Conducted multiple experimental / research projects with RMIT student teams
* Successfully drove technology re-architecture to support rapid delivery and maintainance, with 10x data growth
* Delivered major new projects, including new SharePoint/OneDrive backup solution, a dedicated customer portal, and integration with a second Australian distributor
* Negotiated significant COGS reduction, under NDA, with industry-leading cloud services provider
* Conducted multiple experimental / research projects with RMIT student teams
MessageMedia
7 years 7 months
Solutions Architect / Product Technical Lead
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018 (3 years 5 months)
Designed and oversaw the implementation of MessageMedia's world-class "Next Generation" messaging gateway - a highly available, massively scalable, high performance solution on Amazon AWS, which now powers all of the organisation's worldwide messaging products.
Then went on to design and prototype multiple new products and services, focused primarily on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and mobile payments.
Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Aurora, Bitbucket, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, Java, JSON, JSON Schema, Kinesis, Lambda, Lex, 'Linux (Amazon Linux)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Python, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, and Swagger.
Then went on to design and prototype multiple new products and services, focused primarily on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and mobile payments.
Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Aurora, Bitbucket, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, Java, JSON, JSON Schema, Kinesis, Lambda, Lex, 'Linux (Amazon Linux)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Python, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, and Swagger.
Senior Developer / Technical Lead
Dec 2010 - Feb 2015 (4 years 2 months)
Joined MessageMedia as a Senior C++ Engineer to re-architect and rebuild a critical internal system which was beginning to fail under rapidly growing loads. After a very successful delivery of a high performance solution that exceeded all requirements, moved in to the broader delivery team as a technical team lead, and quickly established expert domain knowledge.
Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Bitbucket, Boost, C, C++, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, JSON, JSON Schema, 'Linux (Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, RHEL)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), PHP, Qpid, QtTest, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, Swagger, and VirtualBox.
Exposed to many, many core technologies, such as: Bitbucket, Boost, C, C++, Codacy, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ElastiCache, Git, JSON, JSON Schema, 'Linux (Amazon Linux, CentOS, Debian, RHEL)', Logstash, Memcache, MySQL, Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), PHP, Qpid, QtTest, RabbitMQ, RAML, Redis, Redshift, SNS, SQS, Subversion, Swagger, and VirtualBox.
MailGuard Pty Ltd
Aug 2010 - Dec 2010 (4 months)
Senior Software Engineer
A successful, short-term contract to develop custom software for integration of MailGuard services with a number of Microsoft products (Exchange Server, Active Directory and Office).
ActiveDirectory, C/C++, C#, Exchange Server, NSIS, Subversion, Outlook.
ActiveDirectory, C/C++, C#, Exchange Server, NSIS, Subversion, Outlook.
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